How Dedicated Hosting Servers Work

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three main types - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate many customers and so the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server plans offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the option to do everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a resource-devouring web site, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the wisest option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You are given full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting vendors, including us at WarpRacks, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from depending on your demands. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you would like to utilize the web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you choose to give access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we provide does not give you complete root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has a lot of sites that consume lots of resources, but would like to administer the websites, databases and e-mail addresses via an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the web server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at WarpRacks the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access deletes something accidentally.